Calling out liberty
Subtitle: the Stono rebellion of 1739 and the universal struggle for human rights
By: Jack Shuler.
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Jackson
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781604732733
Subjects: Slave insurrections -- South Carolina -- Stono -- History -- 18th century; Slaves -- South Carolina -- Social conditions -- 18th century; African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 18th century; Slavery -- South Carolina -- History -- 18th century; Stono (S.C.) -- Race relations -- History -- 18th century; South Carolina -- Race relations -- History -- 18th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Carolina's colonial architecture and the age of rights; title: Dissension in the ranks: regarding, evaluating, and revealing slavery in eighteenth-century America; title: Claiming rights: the Stono rebels strike for liberty; title: Negro acts: communication and African American declarations of independence; title: The heirs of Jemmy: slave rebels in nineteenth-century African American fiction; title: Plantation traditions: racism and the transformation of the Stono narrative; title: Doin' de right: the persistence of the Stono narrative.